Parenting Baby to Sleep: Baby will not sleep without parent
This post is to Emma…thank you
Some children are born with such a strong continuum (ie continuum concept) that they can not stand to be without their Mothers for a moment…other children are fine. Why? We are a different … isn’t it great! This is also known as a Fussy/Highneeds baby
With my second child I have learnt that its OK to hold onto them…in fact its great. Its a total mind adjustment for the parent and it takes thought, stamina and trail and era…the unwillness to give up.
Hamish (baby 2) has slept on me from the first day he arrived. I’ve breastfeed him while pushing Baby 1 on a swing. He’s slept while making the bed, cleaning the house, making dinner, reading stories, talking on the phone hanging out the washing, walking round town…oh yes everywhere!…and all while breastfeeding some times too.
The out come of this for me is I sleep and co-sleep and breastfeed and I don’t hear a peep (unless he’s wet, or gasy) untill morning…..when his sister wakes him up…oh sigh 
A friend asked if he slept well “in there” aka the sling…45min’s-3hours.
I’m a sling girl at the moment and so is Hamish (well he’s a boy…but you know what I mean) but there is heaps of options for Babywearing…just google it and enjoy you sleeping baby.
Oh and a tip Have a back up or two as they do get dirty – the slings or what ever…also try other ways and types as Bub gets older.
Good luck
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that’s also my baby! but, things are a little better now that
he’s 17 months
Great Post!
My son who is almost 12 months now sleeps in his cot next to my bed
but still wakes at least once a night for a cuddle. We have always
co-slept and co-roomed. I figure he is just waking to check in that
we are still there as he nods off as soon as we pick him up.
Some babies just need more contact then others and by us accepting
this fact we are having a much better time.
We are also expecting Baby2 in 2 weeks – am looking forward to
being a more relaxed mum when it comes to carrying baby all the
time! I worried so much with our son!
Yes its just so funny that we worry and listen to all that
advice…don’t carry them…and right now B1 is on the lounge next
to me asleep and B2 is in the sling…such a lovely afternoon
I used to butter and put applebutter on toast while b’f'dg the
So I let him have his space. BUT he still co-slept with me and I
Great entry!
second – it was AMAZING what I could do. My 2nd actually HATED the
snuggly after he was 2 mos old and actually pushed away from me …
slept really WELL that way and so did he. He slept with me till
about 1 year … and was weaned at 15.5 mos – I did when he slept
thru the nite.